Can you provide the stack trace here? 

Thanks

[root@lab ~]# /etc/init.d/beaker-proxy restart
Stopping beaker-proxy:                                     [FAILED]
Starting beaker-proxy: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/beaker-proxy", line 8, in ?
    sys.exit(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bkr/labcontroller/main.py", line 128, in main
    foreground=False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/kobo/process.py", line 56, in daemonize
    os.chdir(daemon_start_dir)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '.'
Frame daemonize in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/kobo/process.py at line 56
<CODE>
      49             sys.exit(0)
      50     except OSError, ex:
      51         sys.stderr.write("fork #1 failed: (%d) %s\n" % (ex.errno, ex.strerror))
      52         sys.exit(1)
      53 
      54     # decouple from parent environment
      55     os.setsid()
-->   56     os.chdir(daemon_start_dir)
      57     os.umask(0)
      58 
      59     # second fork
      60     try:
      61         pid = os.fork()
      62         if pid > 0:
</CODE>
<LOCALS>
                args = <ERROR WHILE CONVERTING VALUE TO STRING>
             cmdline = None
      daemon_err_log = /dev/null
         daemon_func = <function main_loop at 0x10074f50>
      daemon_out_log = /dev/null
     daemon_pid_file = /var/run/beaker-lab-controller/beaker-proxy.pid
    daemon_start_dir = .
                   f = <closed file '/var/run/beaker-lab-controller/beaker-proxy.pid', mode 'r' at 0x100790a8>
                  fn = /proc/4904/cmdline
              kwargs = {'foreground': False, 'conf': {'USERNAME': 'host/lab.rhts.englab.bne.redhat.com', 'KRB_SERVICE': 'HTTP', 'ARCHIVE_BASEPATH': '/var/www/html/beaker-logs', 'CACHE': True, 'ARCHIVE_SERVER': 'http://beaker-devel.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/beaker-logs', 'ARCHIVE_RSYNC': 'rsync://lab_controllers.eng.bos.redhat.com/beaker-logs', 'RSYNC_FLAGS': '-ar --password-file /etc/beaker/rsync.secret', 'PASSWORD': 'redHat', 'HUB_URL': 'https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com', 'AUTH_METHOD': 'password', 'KRB_REALM': 'DOMAIN.COM'}}
                 pid = 4904
</LOCALS>
Frame main in /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bkr/labcontroller/main.py at line 128
<CODE>
     121     
     122     if opts.foreground:
     123         main_loop(conf=conf, foreground=True)
     124     else:
     125         daemonize(main_loop, 
     126                   daemon_pid_file=pid_file,
     127                   conf=conf, 
-->  128                   foreground=False)
     129 
     130 if __name__ == '__main__':
     131     main()
</CODE>
<LOCALS>
                args = []
                conf = {'USERNAME': 'host/lab.rhts.englab.bne.redhat.com', 'KRB_SERVICE': 'HTTP', 'ARCHIVE_BASEPATH': '/var/www/html/beaker-logs', 'CACHE': True, 'ARCHIVE_SERVER': 'http://beaker-devel.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/beaker-logs', 'ARCHIVE_RSYNC': 'rsync://lab_controllers.eng.bos.redhat.com/beaker-logs', 'RSYNC_FLAGS': '-ar --password-file /etc/beaker/rsync.secret', 'PASSWORD': '##scrubbed##', 'HUB_URL': 'https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com', 'AUTH_METHOD': 'password', 'KRB_REALM': 'DOMAIN.COM'}
              config = /etc/beaker/proxy.conf
                opts = {'pid_file': None, 'foreground': False, 'config': None}
              parser = <optparse.OptionParser instance at 0x2ac5d10cd2d8>
            pid_file = /var/run/beaker-lab-controller/beaker-proxy.pid
</LOCALS>
Frame ? in /usr/bin/beaker-proxy at line 8
<CODE>
       1 #!/usr/bin/python
       2 # EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'bkr.labcontroller==0.6.10','console_scripts','beaker-proxy'
       3 __requires__ = 'bkr.labcontroller==0.6.10'
       4 import sys
       5 from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
       6 
       7 if __name__ == '__main__':
-->    8     sys.exit(
       9         load_entry_point('bkr.labcontroller==0.6.10', 'console_scripts', 'beaker-proxy')()
      10     )
</CODE>
<LOCALS>
        __builtins__ = <module '__builtin__' (built-in)>
             __doc__ = None
            __file__ = /usr/bin/beaker-proxy
            __name__ = __main__
        __requires__ = bkr.labcontroller==0.6.10
    load_entry_point = <function load_entry_point at 0x2ac5cdf467d0>
                 sys = <module 'sys' (built-in)>
</LOCALS>

                                                           [  OK  ]
[root@lab ~]#

Ahh!  Thank you for the traceback, Its failing because it can't chdir to where it was started from (maybe /root?).  I brought this up with Daniel Mach before and thought he had fixed it in kobo but maybe we don't have the newest version installed.  I'll track this down.

as a work around you restart the service from / or /tmp and it will not traceback.

Beakerd init is also half broken

[root@beaker-01 ~]# /etc/init.d/beakerd start
Starting beakerd: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/beakerd", line 8, in ?
    sys.exit(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bkr/server/tools/beakerd.py", line 639, in main
    daemonize(schedule, daemon_pid_file=pid_file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bkr/server/tools/beakerd.py", line 584, in daemonize
    os.chdir(daemon_start_dir)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '.'
                                                           [  OK  ]
[root@beaker-01 ~]# service beakerd start
Starting beakerd:                                          [  OK  ]

I have updated the code to make sure it chdir to / instead of .

But I'm not sure you should be running services via /etc/init.d.  Running the following works perfectly fine:

[root@lab-devel ~]# service beaker-proxy restart
Stopping beaker-proxy:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting beaker-proxy:                                     [  OK  ]


Changes pushed to gerrit